Fort Lee

Fort Lee is a borough in eastern Bergen County, New Jersey, located atop the Palisades on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. The borough is connected to Manhattan by the George Washington Bridge. Fort Lee was built by the Continental Army in 1776 during the American Revolutionary War, named for General Charles Lee, and the fort was stormed by the British Army and Hessians in the autumn of 1776. The borough was formed in 1904, and Fort Lee was the site of America's first film studio, built by the Champion Film Company (now Universal Studios) in 1909. The city once had large Greek and Italian populations, but these communities nearly went extinct as a result of large-scale immigration from Korea and Russia. In 2015, the town had a population of 36,672 people; the 2010 census stated that 53.49% of the population was white, 2.75% was African-American, .14% was Native American, 38.44% was Asian, .02% was Pacific islander, 3.08% was from other races, and 2.07% belonged to multiple races; 10.97% of the population was Hispanic and 23.5% was Korean.